The genetic relatedness of different European nationalities

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puddingmouse
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10 Feb 2012, 8:14 pm

donnie_darko wrote:

I actually don't think Irish people look that different from Germans to begin with.


Same here. I have a hard time telling white people's ethnicity just by looking at them.


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10 Feb 2012, 8:19 pm

puddingmouse wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:

I actually don't think Irish people look that different from Germans to begin with.


Same here. I have a hard time telling white people's ethnicity just by looking at them.


That sir, is because you are a mouse.

Has anyone ever had a DNA test? Not the naughty criminal one I mean a genealogy one, find out anything interesting?



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10 Feb 2012, 8:43 pm

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And just to confuse matters further, although the Normans came from France, they were mainly descendant from Norse Vikings, who had arrived in Normandy centuries before.

One of my ancestors apparently. He went to England with William the Conqueror and got a piece of Yorkshire. My last name used to have a "de" in front of it.

Same here. Norman name, folk with that name settled mainly in SE England, then my ancestor went to Northern Ireland and my great-grandfather came to Scotland.


The columnist Roy Blount Jr.'s family name is Norman.
In a humorous little piece in the Washington post he said "Britain may have oppressed the world but if you're Anglosaxon atleast you have a connection to the English soil. We Normans oppressed the Anglosaxons which makes us the oppressors of the oppressors!"


It's also true that the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Romans preceding them, had oppressed the Celtic Britons. Who knows which prehistoric population the Celts had oppressed.

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11 Feb 2012, 12:16 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

It's also true that the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Romans preceding them, had oppressed the Celtic Britons. Who knows which prehistoric population the Celts had oppressed.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


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11 Feb 2012, 12:25 pm

puddingmouse wrote:
donnie_darko wrote:

I actually don't think Irish people look that different from Germans to begin with.


Same here. I have a hard time telling white people's ethnicity just by looking at them.


Really I don't


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11 Feb 2012, 2:36 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:

It's also true that the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Romans preceding them, had oppressed the Celtic Britons. Who knows which prehistoric population the Celts had oppressed.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


Whoever is their First will be given a hard time by whoever comes Next.

ruveyn


Pretty much.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer